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[[File:Harold_Shipman_mug_shot.jpg|right|300px]]'''Harold Fredrick Shipman''' was a <span style="font-size:13px;">British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with 250+ murders being positively ascribed to him.</span>
[[File:Harold_Shipman_mug_shot.jpg|right|300px]]'''Harold Fredrick Shipman''' was a <span style="font-size:13px;">British doctor and one of the most prolific serial killers in recorded history by proven murders with 250+ murders being positively ascribed to him.</span>


On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders. He was sentenced to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_imprisonment life imprisonment] and the judge recommended that he never be released.
On 31 January 2000, a jury found Shipman guilty of 15 murders. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and the judge recommended that he never be released.


After his trial the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shipman_Inquiry Shipman Inquiry], chaired by Dame [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Smith_%28judge%29 Janet Smith], began on 1 September 2000. Lasting almost two years, it was an investigation into all deaths certified by Shipman. About 80% of his victims were women. His youngest victim was a 41-year-old man. Much of Britain's legal structure concerning health care and medicine was reviewed and modified as a direct and indirect result of Shipman's crimes. Shipman is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients.
After his trial began on 1 September 2000. Lasting almost two years, it was an investigation into all deaths certified by Shipman. About 80% of his victims were women. His youngest victim was a 41-year-old man. Much of Britain's legal structure concerning health care and medicine was reviewed and modified as a direct and indirect result of Shipman's crimes. Shipman is the only British doctor who has been found guilty of murdering his patients.


On 13 January 2004, Shipman committed suicide in his cell at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakefield_Prison Wakefield Prison] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Yorkshire West Yorkshire].
On 13 January 2004, Shipman committed suicide in his cell at Wakerfield Prison in West Yorkshire.
==Early life and career==
==Early life and career==
Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>in <span style="font-size:13px;">Nottingham, England, the second of four children of Vera and Harold Shipman, a lorry driver. His working class parents were devout Methodists. Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of lung cancer when he was 17. Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own modus operandi: in the later stages of her disease, she had morphine administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside in spite of her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963. </span>
Harold Frederick Shipman was born in Bestwood council estate<span style="font-size:11.199999809265137px;line-height:0px;"> </span>in <span style="font-size:13px;">Nottingham, England, the second of four children of Vera and Harold Shipman, a lorry driver. His working class parents were devout Methodists. Shipman was particularly close to his mother, who died of lung cancer when he was 17. Her death came in a manner similar to what later became Shipman's own modus operandi: in the later stages of her disease, she had morphine administered at home by a doctor. Shipman witnessed his mother's pain subside in spite of her terminal condition, up until her death on 21 June 1963. </span>